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Definition of Precessing
1. precess [v] - See also: precess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precessing
Literary usage of Precessing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Calendar of Leading Experiments by William Suddards Franklin, Barry MacNutt (1918)
"Consider a freely precessing gyroscope, the precession being due to the pull of
gravity. If the precession is hindered by letting the end of the gyroscope ..."
2. Shakspere and His Forerunners: Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its by Sidney Lanier (1902)
"(He accounts for the five-hundred-year motion by saying that this 50", precessing
through i, 2, ..."
3. Shakspere and His Forerunners: Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its by Sidney Lanier, Henry Wysham Lanier (1908)
"(He accounts for the five-hundred-year motion by saying that this 50", precessing
through i, 2, ..."
4. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1919)
"It maintains this type until a further collision occurs which sets up a new
vibrational precession, the figure axis now precessing round a circle which has ..."
5. The Observatory (1903)
"It would seem desirable to arrange a system independent of our Earth's precessing
axis ; but the constellations are rather ill-defined, and there is no good ..."
6. Technical Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics by Edward Rose Maurer (1914)
"Take the case of a wheel spinning about a horizontal axis supported at one end
which is precessing about a vertical axis through the point of support. ..."
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